If music be the food of love…stop copying it!

In her work for European copyright organisation GESAC, Isabelle Prost is a tireless crusader against music piracy and defender of artists’ royalties. The French lawyer and her employers are particularly worried by the increasing use of

European Voice

7/3/02, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/12/14, 8:10 AM CET

CD-writing computer hardware to ‘burn’ illegal copies of albums.

But Prost often has trouble reconciling the job with the rest of her life – since all her friends are at it too. “I know that in my private circle a lot of people are copying CDs for their friends,” she says.

Prost recently felt compelled to confront her piano teacher – in the habit of making pirate CDs for her pupils.

“I asked her if she knew what copyright is, and she said ‘yes’. But I don’t know if she’s stopped – she doesn’t speak about it any more.”